According to legend, in ancient times, the indigenous Pu people along the Chishui River were good at making wine long before Du Kang. More accurately, according to Records of the Historian, in the Han Dynasty, there was a kind of "gourd Maotai-flavor liquor" around today's Renhuai, which can be said to be the embryonic form of Maotai-flavor liquor.
In BC 135, Tang Meng, the envoy of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, went to South Vietnam (now Guangzhou). At the banquet of the King of South Vietnam, Tang Meng tasted beef stew, a wine produced in Renhuai today. Tang Meng was ordered to go to Yelang, but he was transferred out of Guanfu (now south of Hejiang County, Sichuan Province) and went up the Chishui River to Pomfret Province.
Zheng Zhen, a great poet in the Qing Dynasty, also said: "Tussah does not cross the Wujiang River, and the citric acid sauce comes from the pomegranate." It is proved that Renhuai was rich in wine as early as the Han Dynasty. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, Renhuai area had become a wine town, and the wind of brewing spread among the people. Maotai's high-quality Daqu liquor "Qu Feng Liquor" is very popular in this city.
By the Qing Dynasty, the Maotai liquor industry was flourishing, and there was a record that "there were no fewer than 20 houses burned in Maotai, and the food cost was not less than 20,000 stone" and "renhuai city West Maotai Village ranked first in the province in brewing". 1784, Maotai's "Zhuosheng" wine name was officially named Maotai. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, "Cheng Yi" and "Ronghe" appeared one after another.
19 15, both "Cheng Yi" and "Ronghe" wineries sent their products to the Panama World Expo held in San Francisco, USA, and won the gold medal for their exquisite quality. At this point, the development of Moutai has reached a new peak, selling well at home and abroad.
In the past, due to the particularity and complexity of its production technology, the output was small and it was difficult for people to taste; With the development of liquor industry in Maotai Town in recent years, many enterprises put their energy into the production of Maotai-flavor liquor, which is believed to bring more excellent Maotai-flavor liquor to the market and compose a beautiful movement for the liquor market in China!